Re: [GENERAL] 8 K Limit?? - Mailing list pgsql-general

From Ari Halberstadt
Subject Re: [GENERAL] 8 K Limit??
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In response to 8 K Limit??  (Sean R Melody <srm765@merle.acns.nwu.edu>)
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Sean R Melody <srm765@merle.acns.nwu.edu> wrote:
>Our student government here at Northwestern is putting our legislation
>archives online with Postgresql.  The only problem we encountered was
>that there seems to be an 8 K table limit in Postgresql.  I was
>wondering if there is a way around it or if version 6.5 will no longer
>have this limitation.
>Thanks,
>Sean
>

No painless way. You can split long fields into separate rows with a
sequence number column so you can join the rows back together. You could
also store large data in files instead of in the database, with a pointer
to the file in a column.

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